The Broken Places

Thanks to Wicked House, NetGalley, and Blaine Daigle for providing an ARC in exchange for a fair review.

A few places need to be reworded. But this was a damn fine folk horror tale with some very good prose.

We follow Ryne, a man mourning the death of a child, a divorce, and the loss of his father in a car accident. In flashbacks, his past is fleshed out, so we see why he's pulling away from the world, in the company of his two closest friends. But, as we learn his story, we discover, along with Ryne and his friends, the dark legacy of his family in the Yukon.

There's some really good, unnerving scenes in this book. The male friendship is touching, and it's even gruesome and creepy. I look forward to more from Daigle in the future.